Seminars

A list of seminars and webinars of relevance to researchers in infectious diseases. Joining links will be updated as they are made available.

Institute of Immunology and Infection Seminar - Protozoan & immunology: immune responses to trypanasome infection in zebrafish (cell biology, comparative biology, imaging, sequencing, cool model systems)

Date: Wednesday 1 October 2025

Time: 1 pm

Location: Lecture Theatre 3, Ashworth Labs, Kings Buildings campus

Online: Via ZOOM. Password: IIIRsem24

Speaker: Maria Forlenza, The Roslin Institute

Host: Georgia Perona-Wright

Institute for Regeneration and Repair Seminar Series - All about single cell!

Date: Thursday 2 October 2025

Time: 1.30 pm to 5pm

Location: Seminar room 1.05 in IRR South, 5 Little France Drive, EH16 4UU

Speakers: 

School of Biological Sciences Monday Seminar Series - Nodules and clocks: communication underground

Date: Monday 6 October 2025

Time: 12.05 pm

Location: Daniel Rutherford Building, G.27 LT1

Online: Via Zoom Passcode: X8H9eAdJ

Speaker: Prof Miriam Gifford, University of Warwick

Host: Annis Richardson, IMPS

Institute of Immunology and Infection Seminar - The role of receptor interacting protein kinase 1 (RIPK1) in human intestinal disease and infection

Date: Wednesday 8 October 2025

Time: 1 pm

Location: Ashworth Labs, Lecture Theatre 3 (LT3)

Online: Via ZOOM  Password: IIIRsem24

Speaker: Jaclyn Pearson, University of St Andrews

Host: Joanna Young

School of Biological Sciences Monday Seminar Series - Chromatin and epigenome regulation in a test tube

Date: Monday 13 October 2025

Time: 12 pm

Location: Daniel Rutherford Building, G.27 LT1

Speaker: Dr Hiro Funabiki, The Rockefeller University

Host: Jeyaprakash Arulanandam, ICB

Easter Bush Seminar Series - Capturing Pluripotency

Date: Monday 15 October 2025

Time: 1.30 pm

Location: the Roslin Auditorium, the Roslin Institute, Easter Bush, Midlothian, EH25 9RG

Speaker: Austin Smith, Exeter University

Host: Dr Tom Burdon, Functional genetics

Murray Lecture 2025 - TBC

Date: Wednesday 22 October 2025

Time: 3.30-4.30pm 

(please arrive early for a prompt start, note there is only one entrance to the LT, at the front)  reception, from 4.30pm outside lecture theatre

Location: Nucleus, B.01 - Alder LT, King's Buildings, Edinburgh

Speaker: Professor Kim Nasmyth, Department of Biochemistry, University of Oxford

Registration: In order to gauge numbers for this event and provide sufficient catering, please can you register your attendance via this MS Form

                       Please register by 15 October 2025

Institute of Ecology & Evolution seminar series - Doctors by Nature: How Ants, Animals, and Other Animals Health Themselves – and What we Can Learn from Them

Date: Wednesday 22 October 2025

Time: 2.10 pm

Location: Lecture Theatre 3, Ashworth Labs, Kings Buildings campus

Online: Via ZOOM Password:  IEESem22

Speaker: Jacobus De Roode, Emory College of Arts & Sciences

Host: Ally Phillimore 

Institute of Ecology & Evolution Wednesday seminar series - TBA

Date: Wednesday 29 October 2025

Time: 2.10 pm

Location: Lecture Theatre 3, Ashworth Labs, Kings Buildings campus

Online: Via ZOOM. Password: IEESem22

Speaker: Rob Ness, University of Toronto, Mississauga

Host: Jarrod Hadfield 

Edinburgh Immunology Group seminar series: Seasons of Immunology Autumn Session

Date: Thursday 13 November 2025

Time: 1.30 pm to 5pm

Location: Seminar room 1.05 in IRR South, 5 Little France Drive, EH16 4UU

Speakers: 

Institute of Ecology & Evolution Wednesday seminar series - TBA

Date: Wednesday 19 November 2025

Time: 2.10 pm

Location: Lecture Theatre 3, Ashworth Labs, Kings Buildings campus

Online: Via ZOOM.  Password: IEESem22

Speaker: Stefano Mona, Université PSL, Paris

Host: Simon Martin

Institute of Immunology and Infection Seminar - TBA

Date: Thursday 27 November 2025

Time: 1 pm

Location: Lecture Theatre 3, Ashworth Labs, Kings Buildings campus

Online: Via ZOOM. Password: IIIRsem24

Speaker: Arthus Talman, Wellcome Sanger Institute

Host: Various

Easter Bush Seminar Series - Transforming the Debate about livestock systems transformation

Date: Wednesday 3 December 2025

Time: 1.30 pm

Location: the Roslin Auditorium, the Roslin Institute, Easter Bush, Midlothian, EH25 9RG

Speaker: Dominic Moran GAAFS, TRADE

Institute of Ecology & Evolution Wednesday seminar series - TBA

Date: Wednesday 3 December 2025

Time: 2.10 pm

Location: Lecture Theatre 3, Ashworth Labs, Kings Buildings campus

Online: Via ZOOM. Password: IEESem22

Speaker: Nelly Olova, School of Biological Sciences, The University of Edinburgh

Host: Internal

Institute of Immunology and Infection Seminar - protozoan - crypto genetic screens

Date: Friday 5 December 2025

Time: 2.10 pm

Location: Lecture Theatre 3, Ashworth Labs, Kings Buildings campus

Online: Via ZOOM Password: IIIRsem24

Speaker: Bishara Marzook, The Francis Crick Institute

Host: Andrew Maclean

Institute of Immunology and Infection Seminar - Protozoan diseases of cattle

Date: Wednesday 10 December 2025

Time: 1 pm

Location: Lecture Theatre 3, Ashworth Labs, Kings Buildings campus

Online: Via ZOOM. Password: IIIRsem24

Speaker: Liam Morrison, the Roslin Institute, Easter Bush, Midlothian

Hosts: Achim Schnaufer/K Matthews

Institute of Ecology & Evolution Wednesday seminar series - TBA

Date: Wednesday 14 January 2026

Time: 2.10 pm

Location: Lecture Theatre 3, Ashworth Labs, Kings Buildings campus

Online: Via ZOOM. Password: IEESem22

Speaker: Simon Boitard, CBGP Montpellier

Host: Matthew Hartfield

Edinburgh Immunology Group seminar series: Seasons of Immunology Winter Session

Date: Thursday 22 January 2026

Time: 1.30 pm to 5pm

Location: Seminar room 1.05 in IRR South, 5 Little France Drive, EH16 4UU

Speakers: 

Edinburgh Immunology Group seminar series: Seasons of Immunology Spring Session

Date: Thursday 30 April 2026

Time: 1.30 pm to 5pm

Location: Seminar room 1.05 in IRR South, 5 Little France Drive, EH16 4UU

Speakers: 

Edinburgh Immunology Group seminar series: Seasons of Immunology Summer Session

Date: Thursday 11 June 2026

Time: 1.30 pm to 5pm

Location: Seminar room 1.05 in IRR South, 5 Little France Drive, EH16 4UU

Speakers: